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More pretend and extend by the EU. And who is breaking the rules most egregiously? The Germans, who always demand that everyone else obeys the rules. Griffin Carpenter is Senior Researcher at New Economics Foundation [...]

The Netherlands have become notorious as a corporate tax haven, something they do not want to give up and are secure with EU protection. Long before Donald Trump became president, EU politicians were experts at [...]

“Smith failed to acknowledge the amorality of market forces…He failed to recognize that speculators and gamblers, thieves and fraudsters often flourished while people of industry, prudence, and circumspection were broken by forces outside their control” [...]

Most developed nations are capable of using their own currency to pay for exports, thus having a better chance of managing its debt in foreign currencies. This is not true of developing nations according to [...]

Words of reason for supporting Italy in its current crisis, but this is about German led social re-engineering in the EU rather than economics. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and of [...]

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Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau

“Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” is a series of talks, featuring some of the most prominent European heterodox economists, planned for this year and next in Berlin presented by BRAVE NEW EUROPE, the Helle Panke Foundation, and local groups of the Network for Pluralist Economics.

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30 January 2019 Steve Keen: “When the Swabian housewife saves, what does she do to your bank account?”

Book Reviews

Book review by David Shirreff Robert Skidelsky, acclaimed biographer of Keynes, anatomises an economic and monetary landscape that could be fertile ground for a Keynesian revival There is something seriously wrong with classic economic [...]